Index Code:

ART-OAT-HAT

Orgin:

Lebanon/UK

Field Notes:

Scaled up graters maps and beds with wires turn safety into latent threat

Defining Moment:

The steel kitchen tools and globe works where familiar grids and contours become cages and fault lines

Mona Hatoum

(

1952–

)

mo-na ha-toom

Hatoum built a world where domestic objects turn threatening — grids electrified, furniture destabilized.

Her works reveal the body’s precarious relation to space.

Structural Focus

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In Mona Hatoum’s work, this approach appears where proximity activates material tension.

Position

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In Mona Hatoum’s work, this approach appears where proximity activates material tension.

Material Intelligence

Material behavior actively determines structural decisions.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Proportion

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Space

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Contemporary

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Mona Hatoum

Structural Focus

Boundary as Event

Position

Boundary as Event

Observartory

In Dialogue

Mona Hatoum

Structural Focus

Boundary as Event

Position

Boundary as Event

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue